Word: effort
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...course, the loss Friday night still does not account for the Crimson's poor effort Saturday afternoon...
...understood here is, of course, that the reader is in the hands of a fine storyteller, whose tale, after many turnings, will end as it should. The turnings are traditional. The title figure, a beautiful, not very experienced young Scotswoman, arrives in London to work in the war effort. She and the pilot, Peter Gregory, meet and have a brief, rather restrained romance. Then he disappears on a flight to provision a Resistance group...
...quagmire trying to sort out what expenses could be paid by the taxpayer, because they were incurred in her role as First Lady, and what expenses would be paid by her campaign. The right wing would deluge the Federal Election Commission and Justice Department with complaints in an effort to derail...
...draft-Hillary effort soon took on a life of its own. When powerful New York Democrats pestered Rangel about the First Lady's plans, he suggested they call her office themselves. Reporting back, they told Rangel, "You know what? She really is thinking about it." Earlier this year, Hillary asked California Senator Barbara Boxer--whose daughter is married to Hillary's brother--to approach Moynihan, with whom the Clintons have had cool relations, about a meeting to discuss a Senate race. Boxer went to Moynihan twice during the impeachment trial; he agreed to meet once it was over. Last Friday...
...bizarre story line, Ocean Sea centers around four lost souls staying at a seaside inn, each hoping that the ocean's therapeutic power will heal their spiritual wounds. The characters are a mixture of precocious children and wizened adults who all offer trite commentary on the book's constant effort to present deep and soul-searching questions. Perhaps the most ridiculous characters are the two men: Professor Bartleboom, who tries to measure the end of the infinite sea, and Plasson the painter who tries to paint where the sea begins. As Bartleboom combs the beach with his measuring stick...